We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in mortality from treatable causes, and especially large declines in child mortality. We find delayed childbearing, with lower intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline...

Empirische Untersuchungen zeigen, dass Weiterbildung in der zweiten Lebenshälfte zu Einkommensvorteilen für Arbeitnehmer gegenüber Personen ohne Weiterbildungsteilnahme führen kann. Auch vergleichsweise lange Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen lohnen sich noch in der zweiten Lebenshälfte,...

Technological change was unskilled-labor-biased during the early Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but is skill-biased today. This fact is not embedded in extant unified growth models. We develop a model of the transition to sustained economic growth...

We exploit the adoption of US state-level Paid Family Leave (PFL) laws to test whether family-friendly policies affect firm innovation. We find that PFL policies increase the innovation outputs of firms whose employees are more exposed to these laws. The stronger attraction and the higher...

We investigate women's fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to large declines in child mortality in the U.S. Fertility declined on the intensive margin as expected. However, despite the increasing value of having at least one child, a larger share of women remained childless. We...

We propose an overlapping generations framework in which life expectancyis determined endogenously by governmental health investments. As a novelty, we are able to examine the feedback effects between life expectancy and R&D-driven economic growth for the transitional dynamics. We find that i)...